Abstract In July 2001, Party Secretary Jiang Zemin announced that private entrepreneurs,
among other'outstanding'representatives of the new social elites, were welcome to join the …

IN 1978, DURING THE THIRD PLENUM OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL party congress,
Deng Xiaoping initiated a new economic policy that was to have dramatic economic and …

This article examines the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
membership and private entrepreneurship in China since 2002, the year when the party …

Since the Chinese economic reform, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has gradually
moved toward a separation of the party-state from society, manifested in the withdrawal of …

This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the
debate on China's private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic …

It has become a truism that continued economic reform in China will contribute to political
change. Policy makers as well as many scholars expect that formation of a private sector will …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is the only country or economy under examination in
this volume that is or has been a communist partystate, with a ruling communist party-the …

This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in
contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically …

This chapter outlines an overview of the development of the Chinese private economy. It
presents three sociological perspectives that account for the emergence of the private sector …

Given the fact that the new private entrepreneurs (NPEs) are playing an increasingly
important role in Chinese politics and economy, this article maps the historical evolution of …